Peter Evans

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Partner

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Peter Evans is a Partner at Hugh James. Peter specialises in disease litigation, health and safety, personal injury, funding and regulation.

Peter has been a Deputy District Judge for over 20 years and is an accredited mediator. He was a lead solicitor in the largest personal injury trial in British legal history (Miners Respiratory - 115 days). Peter was responsible for the medical causation issues in the British Coal respiratory disease litigation which involved coordinating a team of 8 experts in epidemiology, medicine and medical statistics. He agreed the special damages in the case for 5 of the 8 lead plaintiffs and, with Gareth Morgan (Partner at Hugh James) and 2 other solicitors, negotiated with the Government a handling agreement which has compensated more than 500,000 men and recovered approximately £3 billion in compensation.

Peter, along with Andrew Harding (Partner at Hugh James), also represented the 117 Gerona Air crash victims. He has been responsible for over a dozen major group actions.